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        Marty Leisner <[e-mail]> cleaned up the Texinfo
        version.

!       Major contributors to the this document who may or may not be
        recognized elsewhere are:

          Steve Hayman <[e-mail]>
          Pierre Lewis <[e-mail]>
!         Jonathon Kamens <[e-mail]>
          Tom Christiansen <[e-mail]>
          Maarten Litmaath <[e-mail]>
          Guy Harris <[e-mail]>
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        Marty Leisner <[e-mail]> cleaned up the Texinfo
        version.

!       Major contributors to this document who may or may not be
        recognized elsewhere are:

          Steve Hayman <[e-mail]>
          Pierre Lewis <[e-mail]>
!         Jonathan Kamens <[e-mail]>
          Tom Christiansen <[e-mail]>
          Maarten Litmaath <[e-mail]>
          Guy Harris <[e-mail]>
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          manipulation tool that bridges the gap between shell and C
          programming (or between doing it on the command line and
          pulling your hair out).  For further information, see the
!         Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.perl.

        Don Libes' book "Life with Unix" contains lots more of these
        tidbits.
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          manipulation tool that bridges the gap between shell and C
          programming (or between doing it on the command line and
          pulling your hair out).  For further information, see the
!         Usenet newsgroup comp.lang.perl.misc.

        Don Libes' book "Life with Unix" contains lots more of these
        tidbits.
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        3.12) Is it possible to pass shell variable settings into an awk program?
        3.13) How do I get rid of zombie processes that persevere?
        3.14) How do I get lines from a pipe as they are written instead of
!             only in larger blocks.
        3.15) How do I get the date into a filename?
        3.16) Why do some scripts start with #! ... ?

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        3.12) Is it possible to pass shell variable settings into an awk program?
        3.13) How do I get rid of zombie processes that persevere?
        3.14) How do I get lines from a pipe as they are written instead of
!             only in larger blocks?
        3.15) How do I get the date into a filename?
        3.16) Why do some scripts start with #! ... ?

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  Subject: How do I get rid of zombie processes that persevere?
! From: [e-mail] (Jonathan I. Kamens)
  From: [e-mail] (Casper Dik)
  Date: Thu, 09 Sep 93 16:39:58 +0200

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  Subject: How do I get rid of zombie processes that persevere?
! From: Jonathan I. Kamens
  From: [e-mail] (Casper Dik)
  Date: Thu, 09 Sep 93 16:39:58 +0200

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  Subject: How do I get lines from a pipe ... instead of only in larger blocks?
! From: [e-mail] (Jonathan I. Kamens)
  Date: Sun, 16 Feb 92 20:59:28 -0500

  3.14) How do I get lines from a pipe as they are written instead of only in
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  Subject: How do I get lines from a pipe ... instead of only in larger blocks?
! From: Jonathan I. Kamens
  Date: Sun, 16 Feb 92 20:59:28 -0500

  3.14) How do I get lines from a pipe as they are written instead of only in
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        C programmer can call directly.  One of the functions does the
        equivalent of a popen for both reading and writing.  It uses ptys
        rather than pipes, and has no deadlock problem.  It's portable to
!       both BSD and SV.  See the next answer for more about 'expect'.

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        C programmer can call directly.  One of the functions does the
        equivalent of a popen for both reading and writing.  It uses ptys
        rather than pipes, and has no deadlock problem.  It's portable to
!       both BSD and SV.  See question 3.9 for more about 'expect'.

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  Subject: How do I keep track of people who are fingering me?
! From: [e-mail] (Jonathan I. Kamens)
  From: [e-mail] (Nikola Malenovic)
  Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 07:28:37 -0400

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  Subject: How do I keep track of people who are fingering me?
! From: Jonathan I. Kamens
  From: [e-mail] (Nikola Malenovic)
  Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 07:28:37 -0400

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        A very detailed comparison of sh, csh, tcsh, ksh, bash, zsh, and
        rc is available via anon.  ftp in several places:

!       cs.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4):pub/vi/docs/shell-100.BetaA.Z
        utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:misc/vi-archive/docs/shell-100.BetaA.Z

        This file compares the flags, the programming syntax,
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        A very detailed comparison of sh, csh, tcsh, ksh, bash, zsh, and
        rc is available via anon.  ftp in several places:

!       ftp.uwp.edu (204.95.162.190):pub/vi/docs/shell-100.BetaA.Z
        utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:misc/vi-archive/docs/shell-100.BetaA.Z

        This file compares the flags, the programming syntax,
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